Posts by Allegra Swift
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UC San Diego Student Journal Receives Gold EPIC Award in Publishing
Congratulations to the Challenger Research Journal at University of California San Diego, winner of the “Excellence in Student Journals – Research” Gold Award at the 2026 EPIC Awards Ceremony in Chula Vista, California, as part of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 48th Annual Meeting. Editorial board members Meghana Hariprasad, Johnny Tran, Leanne Liaw, and Sofia Ruiz-Murphy were recognized for their contributions to the undergraduate journal, which is published by the University of California’s eScholarship Publishing program. Challenger Research Journal began as a paper series within the eScholarship Repository, offering an academic publishing training ground for students within the UC […]
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Reputation managment: your identity, your story
Unless you are a CIA operative or completely off the grid, you are very likely to have some sort of digital footprint beyond your published articles and departmental faculty profile. This can be a good thing if, for example, you are: entering the job market or looking for collaborators in interdisciplinary research; applying for a major research grant; hoping the media will call you for an expert opinion in your field of study; trying to reach the public and/or policy makers who are misunderstanding (and defunding) the research being done in your field. Having a digital presence beyond your formal […]
